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Unless you’re a world champion, you’ll always encounter people who are fitter, faster, slimmer, stronger, smarter or sexier than you. Which is why it’s time to stop comparing yourself to anybody else and work on your own self-esteem.

• Learn how to stop your critical mental voice obsessing over negative comparisons
• Understand when your defence mechanisms are helpful – and when they’re not
• Enjoy the significant benefits of improved self-esteem

Willpower is what you call on to make you do something you don’t want to do. The more you don’t want to do something, the more willpower you need. It can get you through just about anything… until, of course, it doesn’t. Let’s find out why.

• We all have a persuasive inner voice that offers lovely alternatives to what we should be doing. Meet yours
• Willpower is powerful but it has an Achilles heel – doubt
• Discover the four essential weapons for bolstering your willpower
• Enjoy the significant benefits of improved self-esteem

When you have to do something tough, willpower sometimes wins. And sometimes it doesn’t. Is sometimes enough? We don’t think so. There’s a smarter way to get things done. Here’s where you discover what really motivates you – and what really doesn’t.

• Understand the key differences between immediate gratification and longer term rewards – and how they make you fly
• Learn how to align your intrinsic and extrinsic motivators for maximum gains
• Explore your personal physiological, psychological and experiential goals

Come to face with your Cruel Critic. We all have one. It’s the voice inside your head that assures you that you’re crap. Too slow, too weak, too fat, too unfit, too whatever… You wouldn’t take it from a friend – and you don’t have to take it from yourself.

• Understand how, when and why your Cruel Critic tried to bring you down
• Recognise your personal triggers for negative self-talk – and how this affects you
• Overcome your Cruel Critic with affirmations, mantras, and mindfulness

Some people believe they’re smarter, stronger, sexier, funnier or cooler than they actually are. You’re not one of them. Your limiting beliefs hold you back – on your bike and in life. And your Cruel Critic just loves to reinforce them. 

• Understand the difference between knowledge and belief – and why it’s so important
• Identify and tackle your limiting beliefs head on. You’ll find that many are untrue, and others don’t matter
• Mental Cycling is about can, not can’t. Learn to flip your thinking to overcome any barrier

Stress in cycling sucks. It makes you tense and miserable, and sucks the joy out of everything. But here’s the secret. Cycling doesn’t need to be stressful. The trick is understanding why you suffer stress – and knowing what to do about it. 

• Understand why ‘stress’ isn’t the problem. It’s our emotional reaction to stress-inducing situations that causes problems – if we let it
• Retrain your brain to control the way you react to potential stressors.
• Learn to avoid thinking in terms of good and bad, success and failure, triumph and disaster

Unless you’re a world champion, you’ll always encounter people who are fitter, faster, slimmer, stronger, smarter or sexier than you. Which is why it’s time to stop comparing yourself to anybody else and work on your own self-esteem. 

• Develop smart IF/THEN strategies for every eventuality
• Swap anxiety for strategy
• Learn how to choose your effort and design your attitude

If your mind is somewhere else when you ride – if it’s focused on the destination, or a time target, or anything else other than what’s happening right now – then you won’t have a meaningful and enjoyable experience. But when you ride mindfully, every ride can be amazing.
 

• Understand why arbitrary targets can suck the joy out of everything
• Lose your attachment to outcomes
• Find the magical balance between the right level of challenge and your ability to do it

Mental Cycling is about getting to know yourself better. A really powerful way to do that is by analysing your rides – what happened, how did you feel, what did you learn, what can you change, and so on. In this stage, you’ll write a reflective ride report and share it with a buddy in the group.
 

• Learn how to write a structured ride report
• Submit your report to the group for peer review
• Review a buddy’s ride report and share your learnings